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"My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"The First Amendment is not without limits."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely."
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"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
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"Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost."
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"To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art."
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"I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens."
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"I waged war against my feelings."
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"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."
Birds

"Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks."
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"I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children."
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"The mercantile business did not suit me."
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"Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic."
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"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."
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"If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America."
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